Means and methods for sending heat downwardly
OwnerEdward J. O'Hanloninventor
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Abstract
Ordinarily and naturally heat, once freed, tends to travel upwardly. Here means and a method causes heat to travel downwardly, to heat any out of sight area where warmth is required.
Claims8
In a means for sending heat downward, a pair of metallic containers one above the other and connected by a metallic tubular passageway, said passageway reaching almost to the inner bottom of the lower container and almost to the inner top of the upper container, one of said containers partially filled with liquid sulphur dioxide and all tubular and container contacts and connections permanently sealed and made leak proof so no sulphur dioxide fumes can possibly excape.]
[2. A method of sending heat downward including having an upper metallic container, and another metallic container below it, both containers connected by a metallic tubular passage way, extending almost to the top of the upper container and almost to the bottom of the lower container, all tubular and container contacts and connections permanently sealed and made leakproof so no sulphur dioxide fumes can possibly escape there from, positioning a pool of liquid sulphur dioxide in said upper container, heating said upper container thus causing said liquid sulphur dioxide to vaporize and move downward through said tubular passage way as a vapor into said lower container and condensing said vapor in said lower container.]
[3. The invention set forth in claim 2 including the return of the liquid condensate into the upper container.]
A heat transfer assembly for transferring heat in a downward direction from a first position to a second, vertically lower position, and comprising:
- a pair of hollow containers formed of heat transfer material, a first of said containers positioned substantially vertically above a second of said containers, said first container including an aperture through a vertically lower wall portion aligned with a further aperture through a vertically upper wall portion of said second container;
- a conduit having a first end portion extending into said first container through said aperture, said conduit having a second end portion extending into said second container through said further aperture;
- a first heat transfer member in conductive heat transfer relationship with a vertically upper wall portion of said first container for conveying heat into said first container;
- a second heat transfer member in conductive heat transfer relationship with a vertically lower wall portion of said second container for conveying heat from said second container;
- and
- a quantity of liquid refrigerant material partially filling at least one of said containers;
- and,
- insulative means surrounding said first and second containers and a portion of said conduit extending therebetween for preventing heat from leaving said assembly between said first heat transfer member and said second heat
- transfer member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.